Smittenness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being smitten. uncountable
"Howard, in my favourite of all your books, Roots Schmoots, you acknowledge that Our People are “smitten with their own tragedy”. But that tragedy and your smittenness seem to have overwhelmed your capacity for empathy for the other contemporary tragedy – that of the Palestinian right to self-determination and sovereignty."
Example
More examples"Howard, in my favourite of all your books, Roots Schmoots, you acknowledge that Our People are “smitten with their own tragedy”. But that tragedy and your smittenness seem to have overwhelmed your capacity for empathy for the other contemporary tragedy – that of the Palestinian right to self-determination and sovereignty."
Etymology
From smitten + -ness.